Amanda Butterfield January 30th, 2010
This month I was able to take a Wilton Cake Decorating class. I took course 4, which is learning gum paste flowers and decorations. Here are the cakes I made. The pink one didn’t get finished, but the blue one was my “final project” with all of the gumpaste flowers I made.
Julianna Thurgood January 17th, 2010
Today we gave Jackson a Bath…..what a dog…what a mess…. It went better than I thought it would, he just sat and let us do our job. He did shake a few times, getting all sorts of who-knows-what on me, and everyone else in the tiny bathroom. But he’s finally clean!
Well worth it…. Before we gave him a bath, Devon, Trevor, and I were outside playing with him. We started to pet him and after a while I lifted my hand up and there was this greasy white chalky stuff on my fingers… I have no idea what it was but I flipped out. It wasn’t cool. 
Amanda Butterfield December 30th, 2009
We loved having Christmas this year in our new house. Jared had so much fun coating the house in Christmas lights, Paige loved pulling the bows off of all of the presents, and I got to make lots of cakes this month! Here are a few pictures of our Christmas.
Amanda Butterfield December 30th, 2009
Hello all, as most of you know I am trying to get a wedding business off the ground, and wanted to share some pictures of cakes I made this month. If you know anyone looking for catering, cakes or floral for their wedding, let me know. The website will be up soon at www.allthesmalldetails.com. 
Michelle Thurgood December 14th, 2009
Better late than never right? We had a great Halloween this year. It’s been a tougher year than most financially so the theme of this years Halloween was recycle old costumes. The only thing I bought was Julianna’s sleeping mask ($5). The kids came up with their own costumes this year. I think they did a great job. We had a lot of fun on a budget!
Julianna went through several costume changes before settling on “pajama girl”. I let her borrow my purple silk pajamas. My friend, Brandi let us borrow her daughters hair rollers. I bought the mask and she grabbed her teddy (a gift from her friend Megan in Arizona) and wa la! Ready for trick or treats!
I think Devon called himself the “Grim Reaper” although I admit I have no idea who that is. Devon found the stick he turned into a scythe while we were taking our family photos at the Katherine Albertson Park. I love Devon’s enthusiasm for Halloween. I’m sure when he’s grown he’ll be “the house” on the block everyone looks to no matter what the holiday to enjoy the fun of the season.
Trevor gets an “A” for creativity. After looking through all of the costumes from Halloweens past he settled on combining two of his favorites and calling in the “Pirate ghost!” He also made his own weapon (a dagger out of tinfoil and cardboard)
Braden wore one of my favorite costumes ever. I made this scarecrow costume back in 2004 for Trevor when the 4 kids then were from the Wizard of Oz. Braden wore this costume well. It was fun to see the scarecrow brought to life again.
Zach’s costume was once used as a Halloween decoration. I made a pretend trick or treater dressed up like a ghost. Unfortunately the decoration kept falling over in the autumn winds so I quite putting it out. Zach announced he wanted to be a ghost for Halloween so I turned this decoration into a really fun costume for him. He was a delightfully funny ghost!
Amanda Butterfield November 15th, 2009
I’m slowly catching up with posts. Here are some pictures of Pirate Paige this year at halloween.
Amanda Butterfield October 28th, 2009
I am a terrible mother for taking 6 weeks to post about this, but here are some pictures from Paige’s first birthday party. She had such a fun time with all of her cousins!
Julianna Thurgood September 1st, 2009
Where are you people???????? And That Is All I Have To Say. Nuff’ Said.
Michelle Thurgood July 13th, 2009
We have zuchini!!! And it’s good. Come visit us!!!!
Amanda Butterfield July 6th, 2009
It’s official, we closed on June 30th. We bought our very first home in Lehi. We aren’t moving in until August, but we are very excited to have finally closed. The house is in Steve and Holly’s ward, so that’s exciting to be so close to family. I don’t have pictures of it right now, but here is the ad link from ksl.com: http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=475&ad=6119114&cat=&lpid=4&type=1&city=lehi&zipcode=&sale=1&start=200,000&end=250000&state=0&sort=&keyword=